Themes

While internet traffic is exploding and there is new costly infrastructure to be implemented, the “net neutrality” debate is raging.

The Snowden affair could bring about major changes in the structure of the Internet and its governance. Technologies should now a priori integrate standards which give citizens the capacity to keep a check on what data is available.

Big Data is changing our view of the world by changing our modes of approach, moving from analogue systems to digital-based knowledge.

The Internet Governance debate opposes multilateral thinking, favoring the role of State and interstate bodies, with a multistakeholder model, which aims to unite all concerned actors: states, business, experts, academics and internet groups, among others. 

This introduction is in French only – Introduction : internet, une gouvernance inachevée

Washington plays a leading role in Internet Governance, which is hardly surprising given the origins of the Internet and America’s technological ascendancy. However, the majority of Internet users are in non-Western countries. 

France has Europe"s largest Muslim and Jewish communities. The outbreaks of anti-Semitic violence since the Second Intifada are only the most visible signs of an unstable and fraught situation.

This book responds to the often loud debates about the place of Muslims in Western Europe by proposing an analysis based in institutions, including schools, courts, hospitals, the military, electoral politics, the labor market, and civic education courses. The...

The articles collected in this special issue set out to assess critically both aspects (making and representing the world) of national models from a comparative perspective, bringing together analysis of immigration countries in Europe (in the Netherlands, France and Britain) and settler...

On Tuesday 10 April 2012, Osama bin Laden was finally replaced on the FBI’s most wanted list by a fugitive schoolteacher accused of possessing child pornography. As the United States’ perception of threat has shifted, so too has the broader national security discourse. The prominent al-Qaeda...